Today’s funding deals:
Hazelcast adds $11M
Hazelcast, a startup looking to challenge legacy database providers like Oracle and fast-growing startups pushing open-sourcedatabases, has landed $11 million in new funding. The money should help the startup grow into a bigger business as it expands beyond just commercial support for the Hazelcast in-memory data grid.
Read more on VentureBeat: Hazelcast adds $11M to grow its business based on an open-source in-memory data grid
Swrve raises $10M
Mobile marketing automation startup Swrve has raised $10 million to fuel its sales, marketing, and engineering expansion. The second round of funding is one of the first tasks accomplished by Christopher Dean, who became chief executive of San Francisco-based Swrve three months ago. Swrve combines elements of an ad network, analytics solution, user engagement engine, and user acquisition tool.
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Read more on VentureBeat: Mobile marketing automation firm Swrve raises $10M
PrecisionHawk raises $10M
Drones. Box’s Aaron Levie likes them, Amazon and Google want to use them to deliver stuff, they’ve creeped up on national soccer teams during their World Cup practices…. The list goes on. There’s no denying they can be useful, and companies in the agriculture, insurance, and environmental protection sectors use them for surveying land, and then they collect and analyze that data. PrecisionHawk, which produces exactly this type of unmanned areal vehicles (UAV), commonly knows as drones, is announcing that it has raised $10 million in a second round of institutional funding.
Read more on VentureBeat: PrecisionHawk raises $10M for its land-surveying drones
EatWith raises $8M
Much of Airbnb’s success can be attributed to the joy travelers find in staying in locals’ homes, experiencing what it’s like to live there. One company, EatWith, is doing something similar, but with meals and it has raised $8 million in new funding. Through its network, travelers can sign up to attend a meal at a local’s home and not only experience the meal, but also learn about the people, culture, and customs of the region. The service is currenlty available in about 162 cities around the world. Greylock Partners led the round, with additional participation from previous investor Genesis Partners as well as additional angel investors
Read more in the press release.
SocialChorus lands $7.5M
Advocacy marketing platform SocialChorus has nabbed $7.5 million to help more employees spread the word about their companies. “This category is happening,” CEO and founder Gregory Shove told VentureBeat, “because social media has been trapped inside the social-media team.”
Read more on VentureBeat: SocialChorus lands $7.5M to help more employees spread their company’s message
PepperData scoops up $3M
Sunnyvale, California-based PepperData filed a Form D reporting that it has raised a $3 million funding round. The company provides a software platform for monitoring the performance of hardware resource usage of Hadoop clusters. PepperData raised a $5 million round in April.
Find more on the Form D.
Augmate raises $2.8M
Enterprises are starting to get interested in using Google Glass-type eyewear in the workplace to make their workers smarter, faster, and more agile. See it as a first step toward the complete melding of man and machine in the workforce. Cybernetic construction workers. Deep-circuit doctors. Bionic baristas.
Read more on VentureBeat: Augmate raises $2.8M to put smart eyewear in the enterprise
Odilo raises $2.8M
Odilo, a startup aiming to modernize brick-and-mortar libraries with digital lending services and inventory tech, today announced a $2.8 million funding round (€2.2M) led by Active Venture Partners. Based in Spain and the U.S., Odilo says its new funds will be used to “accelerate expansion” in Latin America and the U.S. The three-year-old company claims to already allow “more than 5 million users to access digital content offered by their libraries, schools, universities, professional associations, corporations or municipalities.”
Read more on VentureBeat: Odilo raises $2.8M to help libraries lend books digitally
Shippo grabs $2M
The beauty of today’s technological age is that in the endless stream of photo-sharing, anonymous-chat, and dating apps, once in a while a startup comes along that uses its tech to make logistics for small businesses a little less painful. Shippo is one such startup. And the company, which seeks to make shipping a breeze for small businesses, is announcing today that it has closed $2 million in seed funding and a shiny new partnership with GoDaddy to instantly connect with all of GoDaddy’s small business customers.
Read more on VentureBeat: Shippo grabs $2M for its shipping API for small businesses
Code Climate brings in $2M
Developers could ask their bosses to check for issues in their code before they deploy it. But bosses might have better things to do. A robot might not mind, though. Think of Code Climate like that — a development team’s robot in the cloud that runs standard tests on code without actually executing it. It can uncover security vulnerabilities, potential bugs, repetition of existing code, and unnecessarily complex programming, in Ruby and JavaScript. Support for PHP is in public beta.
Read more on VentureBeat: Code Climate, a set of digital eyes to inspect your code, brings in $2M
